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Message Edited by CollegeGundam on 10-19-2005 10:54 PM

Message Edited by CollegeGundam on 10-19-2005 11:00 PM

Well, My Y-8 still can't mine anything. I can fire my Elite Mining Laser from the cockpit mount all day and it won't even degrade the target asteroid.

Also the external windows are all blacked out now, so it's impossible to fly without switching to external view. That same thing has happened to my Nova as well, I can't see out at all. Just going to the Pilot board now to see if anything has been posted about that, but I've got to say until at least that is fixed I think my morale is just too low to start messing about with building more mining lasers and re-deeding the Y-8 in the vain hope that something might fix it.

Right now, this patch seems even worse than the CU...

Everything is working now. I think it might have been from the pre pub 24 elite mining laserI was using since now that I'm using a newly crafted one it is working correctly. I must say if properly crewed it should be a fist miner.

I crafted some new elite components yesterday and did some testing at the nearest asteroid.

I am missing one of my 5 weapons/tractor beam, its either slot 2 or slot 3 that i am unable to find the turret for

on my Y8, i have one elite mining laser(Y8), a tractor beam and 3 elite blasters equiped but i could only find 2

of my blasters, the tractor beam and the mining laser

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Buke wrote:

I crafted some new elite components yesterday and did some testing at the nearest asteroid.

I am missing one of my 5 weapons/tractor beam, its either slot 2 or slot 3 that i am unable to find the turret for

on my Y8, i have one elite mining laser(Y8), a tractor beam and 3 elite blasters equiped but i could only find 2

of my blasters, the tractor beam and the mining laser

After i found out the right possition for my mining laser i started firing at the asteroid and nothing happened,

i wasnt able to shoot a single chunk from the asteroid.

Also i was unable to look through the windows of my mining ship.

And what is worse is that they removed the cap on conductivity and put it back to 1000,

now all my steel that was pretty uber before this change is crap for crafting ship components, there is no steel that has

990+ OQ and 990+ CD at the same time unless you can sample it on Mustafar.

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You must have a pilot who owns ROTW sitting in the pilot seat to mine. Mount your mining laser in weapon slot #2 and try again.

cheers, will try that now

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Buke wrote:

I crafted some new elite components yesterday and did some testing at the nearest asteroid.

I am missing one of my 5 weapons/tractor beam, its either slot 2 or slot 3 that i am unable to find the turret for

on my Y8, i have one elite mining laser(Y8), a tractor beam and 3 elite blasters equiped but i could only find 2

of my blasters, the tractor beam and the mining laser

After i found out the right possition for my mining laser i started firing at the asteroid and nothing happened,

i wasnt able to shoot a single chunk from the asteroid.

Also i was unable to look through the windows of my mining ship.

And what is worse is that they removed the cap on conductivity and put it back to 1000,

now all my steel that was pretty uber before this change is crap for crafting ship components, there is no steel that has

990+ OQ and 990+ CD at the same time unless you can sample it on Mustafar.

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look for hardened ashevium (sp) steel. i currently got a few stacks of steel with both CD and OQ in the vicinity of 900.

I found that with the bugged windows and the bugged targeting,mining is impossible with the Y-8 (well at least painfully slow compared to a starfighter)

Interesting, i couldnt get my y8 to mine either, no matter what i tried. But I was getting out of the pilot seat and heading to the turret station so maybe thats what was doing it. Very interesting. can anyone else confirm this by chance?

Turret #0 = Top gun turret

Turret #1 = Bottom Gun turret

Turret #2 = tractor beam

Turret #3 = Forward mining laser #1

Turret #4 = Forward mining laser #2

Using third person (since I can't see out the window) my crew and I filled up a 5000 unit cargo hold in about 20-30 minutes. The Turret #4 gunner kept running to the Top turret when pirates attacked. Aside from having to do things in third person, this works great

Okay, I read this thread earlier and crafted an Elite Mining Laser and loaded it into the #2 gun slot. Works great, except I can't see out the windows, so I had to pull back to 3rd Person View.

Can't get my tractor beam to work, that is I can get it to fire but can't get it to target the small chunks after I break up the asteroid piece that breaks off.

Rather annoying. Anyone have any advice on how (or where) to set the tractor beam so it will target correctly? Or, will I need to take along a crew member to fire that weapon?

Well aside from not being able to see out the cockpit.... Randomly flying blind in my x-wing space mining because the only thing I see are target boxes.... Then I collect enough resources to get 5 Y-8 mining lasers.... What a joy I thought! Harvesting will be GREAT!!! Then reality set in. They cant shoot off asteroid chunks. If I goto a turrent and leave my ship unmanned or shoot while piloting no chunks break off. Joy I wasted like 5-6hrs gathering resources for nothing. /tiphat SOE (Retards)

Using a tractor in mount 3 (the big gun) in 3rd person is nothing more than an exercise in frustration. It's really hard to tell where the rocks are in relation to the ship.

As for filling a 5k bay in 30 minutes with a crew, I filled mine in 45 solo with a Class III laser in the big gun slot;at this point, I think tractoring is definitely slower than just blasting away when using the Y-8 without a first person view.

I've had every good results from mining, I now have crafted an Elite laser, a 46k cargo bay, and Elite engines, shields and reactor. I'll have the rest of the ship outfitted over the weekend (armor, capacitor and 4 more elite lasers), and then throw a pre-mustafarmining party